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  System and method for portable safeguard context in a patient's roomUSPTO Application #: 20080103813Title: System and method for portable safeguard context in a patient's room Abstract: According to a patient role and permissions indicators, an origin safeguard context including a patient origin location identifier, an associated origin space safeguard profile, and at least one associated previously-established set of control parameters, limit settings, and controllable device configurations are reconciled with a patient destination location identifier and an associated destination space safeguard profile to produce a destination safeguard context including a destination location set of control parameters, limit settings, and controllable device configurations. One or more destination facility configurations are controlled according to the destination safeguard context to provide automated portable safeguard contexts of in-room equipment such as patient monitors, gas valves, door locks, light switches, electricity sources, power furniture adjusters, and bedside instruments. (end of abstract) Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf) - Oklahoma City, OK, US Inventors: Kavita Agrawal, William K. Bodin, Gregory W. Rybczynski USPTO Applicaton #: 20080103813 - Class: 705 2 (USPTO) The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20080103813. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001]1. Field of the Invention [0002]This invention pertains to technologies employed to provide safety features in areas where hazards may be posed to patients in a hospital room, outpatient center, recovery room, or other medical treatment facility. [0003]2. Background of the Invention [0004]Hospitals are typically thought to be a safe place for patients. However, many pieces of equipment and facilities in hospital rooms, as well as other areas in hospitals, present dangers to patients. These threats can include but are not limited to scalding hot water temperatures, explosive gases, high voltage sources, equipment which can cause injury or death if improperly controlled, and motorized furniture which can cause injury to limbs at pinch points. [0005]For example, an outpatient surgery is performed on a patient in a hospital operating room ("OR"). After the surgery, the patient is moved to a recovery room for monitoring, where his wife and children are allow to visit and stay with the patient as he wakes up from the anesthesia. In the recovery room, there is the patient's bed that can adjust for height and elevation, and a heart monitor and related vital signs machines are running to ensure no complication results from the surgery. These monitors allow nurses to manage various recovery room patients remotely from a centralized location. [0006]During a patient's recovery or treatment, however, the patient may not be completely lucid or cognizant. The patient's reduction mental capabilities, physical coordination, or both, can be due to medication side effects, therapy results, the illness from which the patient suffers, or a combination of these factors. Because there are few, if any, security features on these monitoring devices and other in-room dangers, the patient can accidentally touch a button, trip over the machine wires and knock something over, or simply step on the bed height adjustment peddle and cause problems in the recovery room. For example, certain patient conditions may lead to the patient being the source of the accident, such as dementia, Alzheimer's syndrome, or even being in a reduced mental or physical capacity due to drug effects (e.g. anesthesia, pain killers, etc.), appliances (e.g. casts, braces, etc.), or therapies. Patients in conditions such as these can also change equipment settings, trip over tubes and cables, or open explosive gas jets. [0007]These conditions pose a danger to the visitors and especially to the patient, as well as to other patients and staff in the hospital. Attentive nursing and hospital staff may reduce these dangers to a degree through careful adjustment of certain equipment controls, restraining the patient during times in which the patient would be likely to cause a problem, etc. However, this is not a reliable system to address these dangers, and these measures can be uncomfortable to the patient. [0008]Additionally, when a patient is transferred from one room to another, such as from surgical recovery to longer term infirmary care, or from one specialty wing of a hospital to another specialty wing, the level of vigilance and care against these types of problems may not be continuous. As movement of patients within a hospital, clinic, or surgical facility is common, these potential problems and risks are only exasperated. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0009]The following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the figures presented herein provide a complete disclosure of the invention. [0010]FIG. 1 depicts a logical process according to the present invention for transferring control settings, limits, and configurations from a first patient room or environment to a second patient room or environment. [0011]FIGS. 2a and 2b show a generalized computing platform architecture, and a generalized organization of software and firmware of such a computing platform architecture. [0012]FIG. 3a sets forth a logical process to deploy software to a client in which the deployed software embodies the methods and processes of the present invention. [0013]FIG. 3b sets for a logical process to integrate software to other software programs in which the integrated software embodies the methods and processes of the present invention. [0014]FIG. 3c sets for a logical process to execute software on behalf of a client in an on-demand computing system, in which the executed software embodies the methods and processes of the present invention. [0015]FIG. 3d sets for a logical process to deploy software to a client via a virtual private network, in which the deployed software embodies the methods and processes of the present invention. [0016]FIGS. 4a, 4b and 4c, illustrate computer readable media of various removable and fixed types, signal transceivers, and parallel-to-serial-to-parallel signal circuits. [0017]FIG. 5a shows an example floor plan of a hypothetical hospital. [0018]FIG. 5b shows an example floor plan of a hypothetical hospital for reference to example embodiments and example modes of use of the invention. [0019]FIGS. 6a, 6b, and 6c depict arrangements of systems and network(s) according to the invention. [0020]FIG. 7a illustrates a hypothetical surgical recovery room floor plan enhanced to be controlled in a manner according to the invention. [0021]FIG. 7b illustrates a hypothetical hospital room floor plan enhanced to be controlled in a manner according to the invention. [0022]FIG. 7c depicts the transfer of control setting, limits, and configurations from a first patient room or environment to a second patient room or environment in the form of hypothetical floor plans. Continue reading... Full patent description for System and method for portable safeguard context in a patient's room Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this System and method for portable safeguard context in a patient's room patent application. 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